Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, Cognition’s $2B September 2026 round values it at $48B—up from $26B four months earlier. Annualized revenue rose to $900M from $492M as it leases an Nvidia cluster and trains its own model to lower OpenAI/Anthropic reliance.
Hackers have been stealing Claude AI tokens from paying subscribers by hijacking their account sessions, Anthropic confirmed in September 2026. The company has warned affected users, signed them out,…
UK will legislate against Apple and Google after neither met a June 2026, three‑month deadline to block child nudity; Lisa Nandy says their engineers’ changes don’t meet the crisis scale. Expected rules apply to all UK smartphones and tablets, with possible fines and criminal liability for executives.
Meta announced Muse, a personal AI agent for U.S. consumers, on September 9, 2026 — less than two weeks after the company agreed to an $18 billion multistate settlement over social media’s consumer…
Google Cloud and Accenture announced in September 2026 a joint business unit that will embed engineers directly inside enterprises to help them adopt Google’s AI tools. The new group, called the…
A Sept. 2026 class action alleges Anthropic’s Claude Max is deceptive: the $100 “5x” and $200 “20x” tiers allegedly count only five-hour windows with a weekly cap. Attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan say the key “session” definition is hard to find via links; Max launched April 2025, with the weekly limit added Aug. 2025.
NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs in September 2026 related to one of mathematics’ most significant unsolved problems — and simultaneously alleged that OpenAI used…
DeepMind launched AlphaGenome Atlas in Sept. 2026, predicting the molecular effects of all ~9B single-letter DNA variants with an ~1 PB dataset. The platform adds a Variant Impact Score and is open for noncommercial research now, with commercial access on Google Cloud later via a web portal, Antigravity, or AlphaGenome.
Liquid Network said an unknown actor stole ~4,000 BTC (~$340M) by exploiting a withdrawal bug—an incident disclosed on X on Sept. 7, 2026. After Blockstream patched it (Samson Mow confirmed Monday), about 3,400 BTC were returned, leaving ~600 BTC (~$47M) pending while operations stay paused.
Mistral AI raised €3B on Sept. 8, 2026 in a Series D led by Samsung, valuing it at >€21B—Europe’s largest-ever tech equity round. It’ll scale compute and infrastructure, targeting 1 GW of compute capacity in Europe by 2030, while offering region-based processing for “sovereign” AI.
Google launched Chrome 153 on Sept. 8, 2026, switching from a 4-week to a 2-week release cadence on desktop, iOS, and Android. Google says AI is increasing vulnerability discovery and speeding exploitation, so more frequent patches shrink the N-day patch gap.
Meta published more than 350 video ads containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, and its broader advertising network since late 2025, according to…
